a. [f. VEIL sb.1 + -LESS.]
1. Having no veil; unprovided with or unprotected by a veil.
1822. Milman, Martyr Antioch, 55. That head, whose veilless blaze Fill’d angels with amaze.
1859. Tennyson, Geraint & Enid, 536. Half whistling and half singing a coarse song, He drove the dust against her veilless eyes.
1882. F. W. H. Myers, Renewal Youth, 85.
| Till for that knowledge’ sake they scarce could bear | |
| Veilless the tingling incidence of air. |
2. transf. Unshaded, unclouded.
1870. Miss Broughton, Red as Rose, I. 117. The corn has been whitening under the sun’s hard veilless stare.
1888. H. Drummond, Tropical Africa, v. 109. The glittering ball, whose daily march across the burnished and veilless zenith brings him untold agony.
